This paper seeks to examine the cultural aspects of health and why medical anthropologists emphasize the need for local knowledge of culture to critically tackle human health. Medical anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It aims to understand the factors that influences health including biological and socio-cultural factors. The job of medical anthropologist is to determine the cultural aspects of diagnosis and disease treatment. In essence‚ there are three major arguments
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that not only these languages are kept alive‚ but respected‚ funded‚ and recognized by the government. The emphasis Vowel’s proposal puts on the regional aspects of Indigenous languages gives her argument real weight. While languages like Inuktituk‚ Cree‚ and Ojibwe are in danger‚ there are 70 Indigenous languages across the country today that need even more support to stay alive. History‚ culture and language are interconnected‚ and if these languages disappear from fluency there will be no way to
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a key part in the main fur trade route from about 1778 that lead from the Mackenzie River to the Great lakes‚ along with the Clearwater River and the Methye Portage. Along the banks of the river‚ the Sekani‚ Shuswap‚ Salish‚ Stoney‚ Kootenay‚ and Cree tribes hunted and fished. The Athabasca River was also important to European Colonization. Many plants and animals live along the banks of the Athabasca River. There are also many fish that make their homes in the river‚ too‚ such as the arctic grayling
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is the reoccurring number seven and multiples of it. The number seven holds special significance as it is supposedly the seventh generation that will rise again and the number seven relates to the directions of the earth “It is a mystical number in Cree mythology…” (Johnston‚ 263). There are seven sisters in The Rez Sisters‚ all related by either birth or marriage and one that is an adopted daughter. For Marie Adele‚ the number seven is represented in her 14 children and for Philomena‚ the number
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In our Cree class in Atahkakoop‚ we are learning and incorporating Teepee Teachings in our daily lifestyles. There are fifteen different Teepee Teachings that we have learned about‚ and most of them are not valued by our young people today. We are losing those teachings and a lot of people are lost‚ because they do not have values and beliefs. I am trying to set good examples out there for our young people‚ because they are not taught these teachings at home. I will be talking about the five main
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REGION II – Cagayan Valley “Cagayan Valley is a condensed version of the entire country” Location Cagayan Valley is the large mass of land in the northeastern region of Luzon. It is bounded to the west by theCordillera Mountain Range‚ to the east by the Sierra Madre Mountain Range‚ and to the north by the Luzon Strait. Geography Valley – is a low area between hills. History The earliest man in the Philippines is known to live in Cagayan. The first natives of Cagayan are Negrito/Atta – a short dark
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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn This book talks about Mama Lola life and family heritage and how she becomes a healer in the Vodou religion. Marie Therese Alourdes Macena Champagne Lovinski or known as Mama Lola to everyone. She is the most famous Vodou priestess in the United States. The ethnographic book was written by Karen McCarthy who came in contact with Mama Lola in the 70’s and came very interested in the culture of Haitian Vodou. McCarthy becomes part of Mama Lola’s family and
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Founded in 1867‚ Canada is a country formed by the merging of Anglophone and Francophone territories in the New World. In addition to the English and French‚ the Native American tribes all over Canada (such as the Metis‚ Ojibway‚ Cree‚ Iroquois…) were a key part in the formation of the country we call home‚ Canada (If you identify as a Canadian). Canada has a vast amount of habitable land yet it has a very minuscule population in comparison. Therefore‚ in order to utilize the large amount of land
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Body Ritual Among Nacirema Who are the Nacirema? The Nacirema are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawark of the Antilles. Little is known about their origin but people believe that they came from the east. These people concentrate on the human body‚ which is their main concern which makes the Nacirema unique in their rituals and ways of thinking. The Nacirema believe that the human body is ugly in
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The resulting colonies were unique in that New France had the fur trade‚ New Netherlands had war with neighboring Indians‚ New England had community formation as they followed Protestant principles‚ and New Spain had introduced diseases to America. Jacques Cartier took the St. Lawrence River to France back in the 1530s‚ but for 75 years it grew weak until Samuel de Champlain returned there in 1608 and formed the fur trade in Quebec. The newly founded New Netherland in 1621 also went into fur trading
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